Famous Quotes & Sayings

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

We are positive on stocks, especially those that are benefiting from very strong U.S. consumer demand.

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

There are continued uncertainties, ... The U.S. economy is slowing and commensurate with that is slowing consumer spending and corporate spending.

Scott Brown

There are some encouraging signs in retail sales, but if you look at what the source of consumer spending is, it's really income growth, and wage growth has been lackluster, suggesting the consumer will not be robust going forward.

Bob Brown

We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

We're making a b-to-b play out of a very popular consumer brand.

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

We are getting the investment we need to see. It continues the theme of rebalancing in the economy: slowing consumer spending and housing being replaced with stronger exports and investment.

We are getting the investment we need to see, ... It continues the theme of rebalancing in the economy: slowing consumer spending and housing being replaced with stronger exports and investment.

Unless or until the revival in the housing market translates into higher consumer demand, it is the weakness of the latter that is of greater relevance to the inflation outlook -- and hence the policy decision.

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

Working together with a variety of Intel-verified consumer electronics devices, online services and software including movies, music, photos and games, VIIV technology will help users in a new era of entertainment choices, which will be easy to use with the provided remote control and will be powered by a suite of Intel technologies, including a dual-core processor, chipset, platform software and wired networking capabilities

We're going to convince consumers that our products are safe and effective.

We're going to continue to see this throughout 2004, this sideways movement in consumer confidence, simply because we're going to see a very choppy recovery in the labor market, and employment is the single most important influence on consumer attitudes.

We're expecting to send millions of streams to millions of consumers throughout the tournament.

We're getting people to be consumers of our information. We're telling them what's going to come next and rewarding them as we go on.

We're focusing on the seamless connectivity of consumer entertainment devices.

Through our strong strategic customer relationships, we've learned that portable consumer storage markets not only require a very small and thin form-factor, but they also require low power storage solutions rugged enough to meet the stringent consumer usability requirements.

Jerry Yang

Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.

Ultimately it comes down to where the consumer is.

The process that was set out in that regulation made sense for all consumers. We should make this regulation a consumer protection regulation rather than a senior protection regulation.

This will offer some partial restraint to consumer spending.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

Erin McKean

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

When the markets get frothy they can disappear. When the markets are frothy is exactly when consumers need them.

On a national average, we could hit $3.25 at the pump easily, potentially even by this weekend, ... This is going to cut into consumer demand.

Since nobody knows yet which of these positions will prove truer, most vendors are trying to cover all the eventualities. They want to make sure they have a product for every type of consumer who walks into a retail store.